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Context-Aware Semantic Association Ranking, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Chris Halaschek, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Discovering complex and meaningful relationships, which we call Semantic Associations, is an important challenge. Just as ranking of documents is a critical component of today's search engines, ranking of relationships will be essential in tomorrow's semantic search engines that would support discovery and mining of the Semantic Web. Building upon our recent work on specifying types of Semantic Associations in RDF graphs, which are possible to create through semantic metadata extraction and annotation, we discuss a framework where ranking techniques can be used to identify more interesting and more relevant Semantic Associations. Our techniques utilize alternative ways of specifying the …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 2, Wku Student Life

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hopkins, Shawntaye. University Asked to Conserve Energy on Campus
• Clark, Ashlee & Shawntaye Hopkins. Plans Changed for Pearce-Ford Tower Parking Lot
• Watt, Wes. New Seats Bring Renovation One Step Closer – Diddle Arena
• Hoang, Mai. Peer Mentors Added to Seminars
• Centers, Josh. Cleanup Almost Complete – Interstate Environmental Services
• Reed, Lindsey. Social Security Use Raises Issues
• Journalism Building Opened a Little Too Soon – Mass Media & Technology Hall
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Mass Media & Technology Hall
• Holla Back, Western Gets Wake-up Calls – Telephone System
• Pack, …

The Fcc And Congress Should Consider Consumer Rights When Making The Transition To Dtv, Frank Ing-Jye Chao

Duke Law & Technology Review

This ibrief discusses the copyright issue surrounding the transition into Digital Television. It proposes that the Federal Communications Commission should balance the copyright interests of all parties involved in the DTV transition. Creators of informative and entertaining works must be rewarded with incentives to create further works. Such incentives necessarily involve copyright protection for these content holders. Just as the rights of content holders should be protected, the public's right to access information and to freely express ideas needs to remain protected. Copyright laws, specifically the fair use doctrine, must be allowed to stand firm while maintaining flexibility in order …

All The News That’S Fat To Print: The American "Obesity Epidemic" And The Media, Natalie Boero

Faculty Publications, Sociology

Increasingly the term epidemic is being used to describe the current prevalence of fatness in the United States. Skyrocketing rates of obesity among all groups of Americans, particularly children, the poor, and minorities, have become a major public health concern. Indeed, it is difficult to open a newspaper or magazine without encountering a discussion of the expanding American waistline and the health problems associated therewith. In this paper I use 751 New York Times articles on obesity to examine the media construction of the obesity epidemic. I show that there is not one dominant discourse (i.e. medicine) constructing this epidemic, …

Ua12/2/1 A Year In Review: Sports, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald regarding athletics. Articles:

• Hightower, Kyle. Hiring David Elson Good Choice – So Was Willie Taggart – Football
• Moore, Michael. Hilltoppers Make Swell Choice in Good Ol’ Boy with Western Ties – Darrin Horn
• Ford, Brittany. Find Out Who You Are While You’re at Western
• Ford, Brittany. Food Services Getting Major Facelift
• Dining Dollars, Big Red Dollars Or Cash?
• Ford, Brittany. Senior Shares Experience on Class Scheduling

Wsu Research News, Fall 2003, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A twenty page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 Orientation 2003

Central Florida Future

Welcome home future Knights!

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 73, July 23, 2003

Central Florida Future

UCF's fighting men return to campus: Soldiers missed showers, good food, television in Iraq; Senior breaks a barrier as first black Miss Florida; Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bright, 81, dies; An assist from students for a community in need.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 71, July 9, 2003

Central Florida Future

Pumped up performance: Grade inflation could be the culprit fir rising GPAs; New provost Hickey sweats comfortably through his first week; Bush gets an 'F' grade on environmental report card.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 70, July 2, 2003

Central Florida Future

U. presidents' raises no longer on taxpayers' dime: Florida Legislature limits presidential salaries to $225,000; UCF likely to implement admissions writing test; Whitehouse steps down, returns to teaching.

Homeland (In)Security : Roots And Displacement, From New York, To Toronto, To Salt Lake City, Marusya Bociurkiw

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

On September 11, 2001, broadcast and print media around the world narrated the destruction of New York City's World Trade Center and the deaths of thousands of its occupants. This paper will examine the ways in which television and its appendages (the telephone, the internet, the newspaper) operated to organize the discursive meanings of this traumatic event. I will propose that between September 11 and February 2002's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, ideas about home, roots and rootedness (and their Others: foreignness, homelessness, nomadicism) operated as a discursive mapping of that which could otherwise not be …

Nbc Peacock North Summer 2003, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: NBC Warfare -- Brinkley Tribute -- Looking Back -- Spring Luncheon Pictures -- New Members

Perceptions Of Public Relations: Key Communicators Share Their Opinions, Kamali A. Brooks

Theses and Dissertations

This study had three main purposes: first, determine how key communicators (those who talk to many people on a daily basis and share their opinions with others) in today's society feel about the public relations field; second, show that positive public relations does take place; and third, change the negative perceptions society holds for public relations, so that public relations will lose its negative image.

The author used many sources to obtain research for this thesis, including Rowan University's on-line databases, the University of Delaware's on-line databases, Internet searches, the Rowan catalogue, DELCAT and Temple University.

The author collected data …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 69, June 25, 2003

Central Florida Future

Court's ruling gives mixed signal on race; Comment still corralled: Four free-speech zones not enough, says campus activists; ROCK unfurls plans for flags in classrooms.

Ua68/13/4 Limited Edition, Wku Journalism

WKU Administration Documents

Newspaper created by students participating in the Minority Journalism Workshop hosted by the WKU Journalism Department.

• Clark, Ashlee. Campus Security Tightens in Wake of Murder
• Lau, Jessica. Diversity Grows, Problems Persist
• Yee, April. Home of Love
• Leong, Jennifer. State Street Baptist Church Rededication Date Set
• Cowherd, Heather. Growing Up Black in Bowling Green
• Clark, Ashlee & Aja Junior. Regents Approve Increased Budget
• Leong, Jennifer. Hispanic Ministry Provides Heartfelt Worship
• Taylor, Sean. Shake Rag Gains New Support, Awareness
• Taylor, Sean. Patriot Act Tramples Peoples' Civil Rights
• Clark, Ashlee. Got Ethics?
• Winters, Jonathan. Remove Patriotism from Flames
• Yee, April. Stereotypes
• Jefferson, Regina …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 68, June 18, 2003

Central Florida Future

UCF increases tuition: SGA president fought hikes up to 15 percent; Muddleston upholds policy setting 2.5 GPA for leaders; FCC vote loosens ownership restrictions on media companies.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 67, June 11, 2003

Central Florida Future

UCF alumnus' career blasts off: Former NASA official accepts post as shuttle boss in Houston; Fast track program lets high schoolers skip senior year; Teacher evaluation forms are available, but go unnoticed; UCF: Computers could become requirement.

The Guardian, June 4, 2003, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty-seven page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965. The incorrect volume number of 37 is printed on this issue of The Guardian.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 66, June 4, 2003

Central Florida Future

Universities lose in state budget plan: Tuition hike will cover most of lost state funding; Florida debates FCAT-style test for college students; Big classes are big stage for energetic teachers: Good instructors can engage hundreds; Homosexuals continue to feel hostility on campuses: UCF still without protection policies for gay students.

2003 June-December, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Athletics Press Release Archives

Morehead State Athletics press releases from June to December of 2003.

Evaluating Violence In Slasher Films: Similarity And Social Identification With The Final Girl, Felicia L. Sanders

Masters Theses

Prior research has shown that the media can have an impact on behavior, perception, and gender roles. This study examines violence against women in slasher films through the lenses of similarity theory and social identity theory. Both theories suggest we are attracted to others who are similar to ourselves. In slasher films, the final girl is depicted as a strong character that exemplifies many qualities viewers may see in themselves. Thus, it was hypothesized that as viewers' perceived similarity with the final girl the more they would like her character and the film. Results suggest that viewers perceived similarity the …

University Reporter - Vol. 07, No. 10 - June 2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Science, Sexuality, And The Novels Of Huxley And Houellebecq, Angela C. Holzer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Science, Sexuality, and the Novels of Huxley and Houellebecq," Angela C. Holzer begins with an introduction to recent discourse about contemporary culture by Francis Fukuyama, notably in his book Our Posthuman Future (2001). Next, Holzer introduces twentieth-century literary representations of genetic engineering. Focusing on Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and on Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires (1998), Holzer discusses differences in "utopian" literature when linked to metaphysical aspects of reproduction and that are owing to changes in the life sciences and medicine. Further, Holzer explores the implications for poetics resulting from scientific developments and relates Houellebecq's perspectives to …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 65, May 28, 2003

Central Florida Future

Study: Women paid their worth at UCF; Violence mires followers of peace road map; Web service helps profs expose UCF's cheaters.

The Guardian, May 28, 2003, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965. The incorrect volume number of 37 is printed on this issue of The Guardian.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 64, May 21, 2003

Central Florida Future

With great power comes a physical explanation: Action films teach students the law of physics; Bush blocks travel to Cuba; Don't like that grade? An appeal can change it.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 63, May 14, 2003

Central Florida Future

University presidents say state cuts slice campus budgets to the bone: Statewide blitz attempts to pressure lawmakers to reconsider their plans; Offbeat theatrical event unfolds in downtown district; Pena's two years at top come to an end; Staging a show turns students into stars.

Spartan Daily, May 12, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

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Ua3/9/5 A Spirit Of Celebration, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Program and remarks used by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the 2003 recognition dinner for honorary doctorate recipients and university programs.

Spartan Daily, May 9, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

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